1 Press Release Athena Tacha
ΙΔΡΥΜΑ ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ Φ. ΚΩΣΤΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ THE J.F. COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION ATHENS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS Thessaloniki, 19.10.2010 Press Release Athena Tacha: from the Public to the Private “Nikos Kessanlis” exhibition venue Athens School of Fine Arts 256, Piraeus str., Athens October 22 - November 28, 2010 Opening: Friday October 22, at 20:00 After a successful presentation in Thessaloniki and in the artist’s hometown of Larissa, the retrospective exhibition of Athena Tacha – a distinguished Greek-American artist and professor - entitled “Athena Tacha: from the Public to the Private” opened on October 22, at the Athens School of Fine Arts, “Nikos Kessanlis” exhibition venue and lasted until November 28th 2010. It was a 40-year retrospective representing all aspects of Tacha’s work, curated by Katerina Koskina (art historian, museologist and President of the Board of Trustees of the SMCA) and Syrago Tsiara (art-historian, director of the Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Center). The exhibition was co-produced by the State Museum of Contemporary Art, the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation and the Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa - G.I. Katsigras Museum. More than 100 works of Athena Tacha were presented in the exhibition, documenting for the first time in Greece her incredibly important work in environmental, site-specific sculpture and conceptual art. Her public work consists of more than 45 large executed commissions in public places (squares, open recreation areas, fountains, universities, river banks), in many US states – Florida, Ohio, Arizona, Alaska, Pennsylvania, New York – from the early 1970s until now. 1 In parallel, Athena Tacha has been making numerous conceptual art pieces on the relation of the human body, nature and time (aging, heredity studies, movement studies, etc.), as well as a series of digital art works for the Web on environmental and social issues.
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